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Have you ever wanted to know what causes hiccups?

Or how ’bout how to make a 3D paper snowflake?
Bad can be good. here are the top ten bad things that are good for you?
Have you ever not understood an online joke? Here is a guide to the inside jokes of Internet Comments?

Ben Folds is great. Plus who doesn’t like a white guy covering a rap song? Here is a Ben Folds’ Cover of a Dr. Dre Song?
Two Crazy Basketball Shots by a High School Kid Crazy!

It’s Flickr Time!

I have felt sick all week knowing that James Kim from CNet was missing. Sure I have never met the guy, but I was a huge fan of TechTV and I try to keep up on what everybody has been doing after TechTV. I feel like I personally know all the former TechTVers. Of course I was a listener and viewer of James Kim’s podcasts. I was really saddened to know his body was found today. It was great when his wife and kids were found. It gave me hope that James would make it back. I was looking forward to the stories he would tell.  From what all his coworkers are saying, James was a really great man.  He will be missed by more people than he even knew.

I don’t buy music online.  Not because I just steal it, but because I don’t want crappy DRM on any of my music.  I want to do anything I want with it.  So I still buy CDs.  Half the time I can’t find the CDs in the store so I do end of stealing it.  I feel bad, but not to bad.  If they want me to buy them they should have had them at Best Buy.

I just discovered DownloadPunk.com.  It looks like a great site.  The punk music I like and no DRM.  This will be my first place to look if I can’t find the CDs in stores.  It also looks like every album has a free song on it so you can check it out.  Awesome.  I downloaded a Bad Religion song to check it out and it looks like the songs are 192k, so they are even better quality than iTunes.  I hope this site does really well.  This is the way music should be sold online.  [Link via Boing Boing]

So a few weeks ago I mentioned that the worlds tallest supported structure is in North Dakota not to far from Fargo. Well, today on Rocketboom you can see it. The whole episode is about tall things.

Yesterday I dropped my iPod at work on a hard tile floor. I am glad it didn’t break. One of the corners has a small barely noticeable dent and the front is coming apart from the back at the bottom. It is barely noticeable, but I notice it so it bugs me. Good thing it didn’t break. I would have had to go out and buy a new one right away. I don’t know if I could like a day without my iPod. I want to wait at least until there is a new model out before I break my current one.

Oh yeah, we got snow today too, but not as much as some places. The storm kinda went around us for a change.

I find and read a lot of cool stuff throughout the week on the internets. Most of them I want to blog about, but they usually aren’t big enough and I don’t have time to blog them a lot of the time. So now every week on Thursday or Friday I will post my adventures of the net. Here are a few links from this past week.

Everybody seems to be switching to Google Reader including me. Here are 7 great Google Reader tips.

How most Americans see the world. Sad but true.

Odds for your death.

Greatest high school football comeback…almost.

Next time I feel old I can feel a little younger in knowing that I am younger than E-mail. E-mail turned 35 this week.

50 completely useless facts.

Winter is here.  The snow isn’t here yet, but I am sure it’s on it’s way.  When I left for work this morning it was 5º.  I didn’t plug my truck in last night because I didn’t think it was going to be that cold.  My truck didn’t like me too much for it.  It started just fine, but it was a little slower that usual.  Now it’s plugged in.  It starts so much nicer when it’s plugged in.  Poor thing has to sit outside in the cold all winter.

“if Toby Keith hates you then you must be doing something right.”

~Dave Slusher

I have never been good at saving money.  There always seems to be a new tech toy that I want that always seems to get my extra money.  Since we are planning on buying a house sometime soon, we have been saving money like crazy.  Saving money is now becoming addictive.  Sure I want a XBox 360 and a Wii and a Nintendo DS, but I don’t want to take money out of our savings account.  Last week when I paid bills and balance the checking account we had an extra $600.  I could have easily bought a toy, but instead I transfered it to our savings.  It’s kinda fun watching that number grow.  I don’t know if it is as fun as a XBox 360 though.

So it sounds like the snow is coming for good.  It is suppose to snow Tuesday and Wednesday.  We will see if it happens.  It is cold enough for it to happen.  I have been waiting for a nice day to clean up all the dog crap in our yard, but I am beginning to think our nice days are done.  I guess I should do it today before the snow flies.